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Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe has designed a “spectacular” boom for its latest B7-6 Sigma mini excavators. The Sigma concept SV100 two piece boom allows a 360 degree front turning radius within 2.7m … ideal for tight and narrow urban roadwork sites.

Trimble Loadrite’s new H2250 Haul Truck Monitor is part of the company’s vision for the connected quarry, collecting information centrally on a cloud-based platform. The system monitors (amongst other things) load weights, vehicle activity patterns, cycle times and data from the production plant to manage the whole operation as successfully as possible.

Topcon Positioning Group’s new road scanning concept SmoothRide can gather highway asset data at highway speeds with no need for lane closures, crash trucks or escorts. SmoothRide is a vehicle-mounted resurfacing solution for paving and milling projects that can help to deliver smooth surfaces and to calculate accurately the quantity of material needed for each project.

Metso is pushing its technology and service packages from the mining sector into the aggregates industry so that quarry operators can benefit from tailored solutions that will “improve productivity and cost efficiency” figures. Users can pay with a monthly fee or by a cost per tonne route that also commits Metso to making things run as smoothly as possible.

Haulotte is using computer diagnostics to make sure that is new generation of aerial work platforms and telehandlers is as intelligent as possible, offering easier service and maintenance routines to keep downtime and operating costs at a minimum.

Terex Finlay has unveiled its largest impactor, the I-140, aimed primarily at the recycling sector. The company hopes that the new machine will offer operators higher flow rates and less downtime with four blow bars, a higher upstand for more throughput and a wider flow channel with nothing for the material to catch on.

Kobelco has developed two new industrial machines for bauma 2016. The first is a high-reach demolition unit with a 24m boom and the second is a new dismantling machine designed to recycle vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life.

All of John Deere’s engines are now “Stage V capable” says the manufacturer, not least because it has been using DPF technology since the introduction of Stage IIIB in 2011. The company has amassed more than 150 million DPF hours of in-field use and says that its engineers are all “comfortable” with the technologies involved.

Hitachi used bauma 2016 to announce that it is expanding its European dealer network and launching a “tunnelling champion” based on its new ZX135US-5 SRF excavator. This short tailswing unit is made from heavy duty steel and has been designed to work in tight spaces underground.

Let Fritzmeier show you the “cab of the near future” developed by a consortium including Bosch, Grammer, Savvy Telematic Systems and the Technical University of Dresden. The prototype won the design category in the bauma innovation awards 2016 with an end-result that is “optimised in all dimensions.